STREET SWEEPER OPERATOR I

City of Farmington • Farmington, NM

4d • $21 - $21 • Onsite

About The Position

Under the supervision of the Street Division Foreman, this position performs routine street maintenance and construction tasks. This includes a wide variety of semi-skilled manual tasks and extends to the operation of light to medium-sized automotive equipment. The role requires excellent customer service skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships. The operator will use a motor vehicle to assist in carrying out the business of the department and the City, and will operate Street Sweepers to clean and maintain streets, parking lots, medians, alleys, and intersections. Responsibilities also include responding to emergency calls for clean-ups, performing daily preventative maintenance, and making mechanical repairs on the sweeper. Daily reports on sweeping hours, mileage, water gallons, debris loads, and maintenance performed are required. The operator will also use various hand tools and operate other heavy equipment such as dump trucks, snow control equipment, rollers, and loaders. Attendance at work is an essential function of this position.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent, or equivalent work experience in a closely related construction field.
• Valid state Class B Commercial Drivers License with tanker endorsement required with acceptable driving record for the past three years.
• Experience operating street sweepers, dump trucks, water trucks, crack sealing machine, jack-hammers, steel wheel and rubber tire rollers, vibrating skid plate tampers, hand picks and shovels, chain saws, weed eaters, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners and loaders.
• One year of work experience in a construction related field involving the operation of trucks or other related light automotive equipment, or equivalent vocational training courses.
• Ability to adapt to rotating shifts.
• Must have a telephone at residence.
• Must be willing and able to be on 24 hour call.
• Must be able to be at the MOC within 30 minutes after receiving call.
• Employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• Employee frequently is required to stand and talk or hear.
• Employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.
• Employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

• Street Sweeper Operators are considered "Street Sweeper Operator I" for the first three years of service. Operator's will receive a 5% increase and advance to "Street Sweeper Operator II" after three years of service.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine street maintenance construction tasks.
• Operates Street Sweepers to clean and maintain streets, parking lots, medians, alleys and intersections.
• Responds to emergency calls to clean up wrecks, oil and gravel spills.
• Performs daily preventative maintenance including checking oil, fluids, coolant, filters, lights, brooms, greasing all inserts and washing unit daily.
• Performs mechanical repairs including changing brooms, deflector plate and bar, skid shoes and plates.
• Trouble shoots on rear and front engines.
• Prepares daily reports on sweeping hours, mileage, water gallons, loads or debris and maintenance performed on sweeper.
• Operates jack-hammers, vibrating skid plate tampers, chain saws, weed eaters, hand picks, shovels, brooms, rakes, pitch forks, pruners, and other miscellaneous hand tools.
• Operates dump trucks in a wide variety of Community Works' maintenance and construction tasks, snow control equipment, steel wheel rollers, rubber tire rollers, crack sealing machine, loaders, water trucks, and similar equipment, a wide variety of semi-skilled street construction equipment for training purposes.
• Assists in setting up and cleaning of job sites including traffic control devices.
• Cleans weeds, trash, and other debris from work site.
• Performs custodial tasks.

Benefits

• The City of Farmington's Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Program which includes: pre-employment testing, post-accident testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion testing, return to duty testing, and follow-up testing.
• Pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol test is required for this position.
• Extensive background checks required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED